MBA50.com Premiership 2014 – European b-school ranking of rankings

Matt Symonds, November 12, 2014

MBA50.com has compiled the results of the major media MBA rankings of the last twelve months to produce the MBA50.com Premiership.

How do the top business schools in Europe perform when you combine these results? the London Business School continues to dominate, with INSEAD close behind for the third year in a row. In addition to the gains made by IE, HEC Paris, Cambridge Judge and ESMT, the UK’s Warwick Business School has surged into the top 10, though the school does not take part in the BusinessWeek ranking. Imperial College London is included for the first year now that they participate in at least two of the major rankings.

2014 Rank

2013 Rank

2012 Rank

Institution

Country

Financial Times 2014*

BusinessWeek 2014*

Economist 2014*

Forbes 2013*

1

1

1

London Business School

UK

1

3

3

4

2

2

2

Insead

France / S'pore

2

4

4

2

3

3

4

IMD

Switzerland

4

8

5

1

4

5

5

IE Business School

Spain

5

1

9

5

5

4

3

Iese Business School

Spain

3

7

2

12

6

8

6

HEC Paris

France

7

9

1

15

7

6

10

Univ of Cambridge - Judge

UK

6

5

16

8

8

12

14

Warwick Business School

UK

10

10

7

9

10

15

SDA Bocconi

Italy

11

11

12

3

10

7

7

Esade Bus Sch

Spain

8

13

6

14

11

9

8

Univ of Oxford - Saïd

UK

9

6

22

6

12

12

13

Cranfield Sch of Mgmt

UK

15

10

17

9

13

-

-

ESMT

24

2

14

11

9

Manchester Business School

UK

14

16

-

11

14

14

11

Mannheim Bus Sch

Germany

18

12

11

-

16

15

12

City University - Cass

UK

13

18

13

17

-

-

Imperial

16

14

18

16

16

Rotterdam Sch of Mgmt, Erasmus

Netherlands

12

15

20

-

19

18

29

Univ of Strathclyde

UK

19

15

-

20

16

-

Univ of Bath

UK

22

13

-

21

21

18

Lancaster University Mgmt Sch

UK

21

27

10

22

19

24

University of St Gallen

Switzerland

23

19

-

23

19

20

Univ College Dublin - Smurfit

Ireland

25

21

-

24

22

17

EM Lyon

France

26

24

-

25

-

-

Durham

27

26

*Ranking figure above is relative to other European b-schools

Click below to find out the 2014 results for other regions of the world:

Very few of the European business schools are ranked by four of the major media rankings. BusinessWeek and Forbes assess only a limited number of non-U.S. business schools, while US News does not consider business schools from Europe at all.

MBA50.com has calculated overall performance by looking at each ranking position compared to other European schools. In the case of the FT and Economist rankings, if a European business school ranked #41 in the overall FT ranking and #33 in the overall Economist ranking, but among European business schools was #14 in the FT and #10 in The Economist, then the relative European regional figure was used for the calculation, and added where appropriate to those of BusinessWeek and Forbes, before dividing the results by the number of rankings in which they appear to achieve an average score.

The idea of the MBA50.com Premiership is to compare the performance of schools in multiple rankings, and therefore does not include the many good European business schools that appear in fewer than two rankings.

Candidates should remember that this is not scientific approach, and there is no attempt to weight any one ranking greater than the others. As stated before, each ranking uses a different methodology and measures different things with the inherent limitations of each assessment, so doing particularly well in one ranking and less well in another is reflected in the overall average score.

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